• Neuromancer@lemm.eeM
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    3 months ago

    My friends who survived communism would disagree with you. Do you have a cite to show otherwise?

    Looking at Venezuela, I have not seen anything like that here, have you? or Cuba? When I was in Cuba, malnutrition was common.

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      3 months ago

      Do I have a citation that starvation exists in capitalist countries as well? I don’t think comparing the rest of the world to the US, which is extraordinarily well-positioned economically for a variety of reasons, makes much sense. Even so, we have 15-30 million people in the US who experience occasional or chronic food insecurity.

      As far as Cuba, who knows how they would have done without decades of a US trade embargo. Venezuela has suffered under looting and misrule by authoritarian dictators, not communism.

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        3 months ago

        Cuba is only embargoed from us. Pretty much everyone else in the world trades with them.

        Authoritarian dictators. Communism. It is all the same thing.

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          3 months ago

          Authoritarian dictators. Communism. It is all the same thing.

          Ha ha, no. If that’s the angle you’re coming from that explains a lot.